2025-2026 Enrollment is NOW OPEN!

🏕️ Hands-on outdoor adventures & learning experiences for preschool & elementary aged children in Newport, Oregon. 🍂

⛄️ LEARN through PLAY: EXPAND your ACADEMIC & SOCIAL SKILLS!

🐋 EXPLORE: Take field trips to gardens, estuaries, creeks, farms, beaches, and forests. Immerse yourself in the great outdoors.

🔎 DISCOVER: Conduct science experiments, watch wildlife from a respectful distance, engineer, touch ancient fossils, find agates, learn local foraging techniques, respectfully learn about various cultures, explore basic Spanish & American Sign Language, develop a love of books, and dive into topics that you love.

🎨 CREATE: Art, stories, poems, plays, inventions, mud pies, forts, and deep friendships.

🌲 Private Elementary School Kindergarten-6th Grade & Homeschool Classes

🌲Choose the package that works best for your family!

🌲FULL TIME Outdoor Preschool Registration Opening Soon!!

2025-2026 Apply Today!

Prospective families are encouraged to set up a zoom meeting with us before applying. To set up a zoom meeting use this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PTZZ58C

As a courtesy to families, we offer a monthly payment options. Prices are listed per child.

Full Time Care Coming SOON!

Email OregonRecess@gmail.com to add your name to our FULL TIME Waitlist.

NOW ENROLLING for SUMMER CAMPS 2025

Register for Summer Camp Today!

SUMMER 2025 CAMP SIGN UP: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DR797QN

What Parents Have to Say About Us!

Recess is a NOAA Ocean Guardian School

In 2021, our elementary & preschool students collaborated to write a vision for how to make our little corner of the world a better place. Their message? Let’s work together to help the ocean!

Making our local beaches a cleaner place is good for everyone. We can all agree that Lincoln County Locals love our fresh local seafood, clean places to play, and beautiful beaches.

Through regular Beach Cleanups & Reusable Bag Giveaways, our students put their vision into action with the support of NOAA’s Ocean Guardian School program.

Over the years, their vision has expanded. Students now learn and care for native plants and wildlife throughout the year. In the spring, thanks to funding from the NOAA Ocean Guardian School program and private donors, the students host an annual native planting event with partners from MidCoast Watersheds Council, Cape Perpetua Collaborative, Oregon Bird Alliance, & more along Beaver Creek in Seal Rock.

It is an honor to be funded by NOAA for a fourth year!